Syrian Fathi Jabr al-Salatine who brutally murdered Myriam Achkar last year just got the death sentence for his crime.

For those who don’t remember, Achkar – a devout Christian girl – was on her way to a monastery in Sahel Alma to pray when she was ambushed by the Syrian who worked at the convent. He tried to force himself on her. She resisted. He couldn’t rape her so he ended up killing her.

A day after the Kremlin's pointman on Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, all but conceded the end is nigh for President Bashar al-Assad, Russia's Foreign Ministry licked his assessment by insisting Moscow's position on Syria has not changed and never will.